Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

RIP George Michael. I can't believe it. Such an incredible singer and a lovely human being, far too young to leave us.

When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.